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Dungannon was the clan's main stronghold. The traditional site of inauguration for 'The O'Neill' was Tullyhogue Fort, an Iron Age mound some four miles northeast of Dungannon. The clan O'Hagan were the stewards of this site for the O'Neills. In the 14th century the O'Neills built a castle on what is today known as Castle Hill; the location was ...
O'Grady Clan are distant relations of the O'Brian Clan. Ó hÁdhmaill The clan are a branch of Cenél nEógain [57] (specifically, Cenél mBinnigh), descendants of Eochu Binneach, the son of Eógan mac Néill. O'Higgins family claim descent from the Southern Uí Néill. Ó Flaithbheartaigh Clan claim descent from the Connachta's Uí Briúin.
Brian O'Neill, Baron Dungannon (died 1562), de jure Baron Dungannon 1558–9, styled Dungannon 1558–1562. Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone , (died 1616) styled Baron Dungannon 1562–1585, never de jure : before his brother's death, he was not heir apparent, for his brother could have married and had sons; after his brother's death, he was de ...
Hugh O'Neill, 4th Baron Dungannon [1] [2] [3] (c. 1585 – 24 September 1609) was an Irish nobleman. He was the son and heir to Irish Gaelic lord Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, [4] though he predeceased his father. Dungannon accompanied his family and countrymen on the Flight of the Earls, leaving Ireland for mainland Europe.
The name O'Neill may come from Niall Glúndub, however the Clann Néill (more commonly known as Clan Neill) takes its name from his grandfather Néill Caille.The O'Neills and MacLaughlins who descend from this branch, were the two principal and most powerful septs of the Cenél nEógain, however the MacLaughlins defeat at the hands of the O'Neills in 1241 led to the O'Neills dominance over the ...
He was granted 120 acres (0.49 km 2) outside the ancestral home in Dungannon in 1611. [citation needed] As planters moved into the territories to the north, the combination of the dense forest and Hugh's reputation kept most new arrivals out. By 1615 he had lost his lands in Dungannon over a struggle with the Lord Lieutenant.
When Conn Bacach O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone surrendered his Irish principality of Tír Eoghain to Henry VIII in 1542, as part of Henry's effort to make his new Kingdom of Ireland into all of Ireland, Henry created him, on 1 October 1542, a week later, Earl of Tyrone; by the patent this was to descend to his eldest, illegitimate, son, Ferdoragh O'Neill and his heirs; he assumed the more ...
Earl of Ranfurly, of Dungannon in the County of Tyrone, a title in the Peerage of Ireland, was created in 1831 for Thomas Knox, 2nd Viscount Northland. [1] He had earlier represented County Tyrone in the House of Commons, and had already been created Baron Ranfurly, of Ramphorlie in the County of Renfrew, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in ...